Countries
West Java
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- The Sundanese language is second most widely spoken regional language in Indonesia.
  
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
  
Similar To
Madurese and Malay Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Sundanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Alphabets
Not Available
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin, Sundanese
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Halo
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
Nuhun
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
Kumaha kabarna?
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
Wilujeng kulem
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
Wilujeng wengi
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
Wilujeng siang
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
Wilujeng énjing
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
Mangga
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
Hapunten
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
Wilujeng angkat
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
Abdi bogoh ka anjeun
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
Punten
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Western dialect
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Banten
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Northern dialect
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Bogor
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Priangan dialect
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Bandung
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
38.00 million
  
26
1.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
Not Available
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Priangan, Sunda
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
soundanais
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Sundanesisch
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Sundanese, Bantenese, Cirebonese, Badui
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
5th century AD
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Sundanese
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
su
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sun
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
sun
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
sun
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sund1251
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available